What is up everyone! I hope you are all doing well on
this fantastic Monday afternoon. This week has been pretty hectic with all the
things that were going on.
Monday we had the opportunity to go to the
Marriott's house for our zone activity. We got to got together and
played lots of sports like volleyball, Frisbee, and catch with a baseball. It
was pretty great. Later that night I found out that I would be getting
transferred to the Patuxent Ward, which is located in southern Maryland and I
also found out that I was going to be in a trio. Once I found that out, I started
to pack.
Tuesday Elder Crandall and I spent the entire day visiting different
family's in the ward. I am really grateful for the time I have been able to
spend in the Kentland's Ward. Some for the names of the family's we visited
were the Carvers, the Martinis, the homestead, and for dinner we went with the
Clark's to Cafe Rio. While we were at dinner a few other members of the ward
were there. After dinner we went and visited Marie to say goodbye to her and
then we ended the night at the Blewett family which was a really bitter sweet
moment.
Wednesday we woke up early and finished our packing. We drove to the
church to drop off some last things to Sister Blewett and then we headed to the
church for our transfers. I received Elder Schank as one of my new companions
and Elder Schank got called to be a trainer for Elder Brimhall. Both of them
are really cool guys and I am very excited to be with them. At first I was
really not in the best of moods when I found that I was going to be white
washing in the outskirts of the mission in a trio, but I now feel like that is
where I am suppose to be because of s few reasons. After we we got all packed
up into the senior couple's van we made our way down to our area which is about
2 hours away from the temple. That first day in the area we were able to meet
with the ward mission leader and with an awesome family for dinner. The ward
mission leader is an awesome guy! He seems to be very dedicated to the ward
mission. One of the great things he does is he assigns family's to feed the
missionaries. That way we are able to meet the whole ward.
Thursday we stared our days off with some studies as
always. And since Elder Brimhall is a new missionary we get an extra hour
personal study which is great. So far the feel to a trio had been kinda
strange. This is the only one I have been in and it is quite a bit
different, just because you have to balance things out between all three
companions ships. For example teaching a lesson with two people feels different
then teaching with three people. Training a new missionary in a trio also feels
a lot different then just the normal 2 person companionship. After our study's
we drove 45 min to get to our 12 week meeting for Brimhall and our zone
district meeting. Meetings were pretty good. All we did was play games, which
is fun for a few minutes, but then you start to feel like you are just wasting time. It was good though. The zone I am in now is very young,
so I don't know too many people and he games helped me get to know them a little
better. By her time we got back to was time for us to go to Dinner with another
awesome family. We stood around there house for a little extra time so we could
meet their son who is thinking about serving mission. It was a very fun evening
with the Ray family.
Friday we spent a lot of time trying to set up
appointments for the up coming week. We also tried getting s hold of our
investigators, but unfortunately they didn't pick up. After we had finished
planing we tried knocking on some of our investigators doors, but nobody was
home. We then proceeded to dinner and after dinner we dropped in on members in
the surrounding area.
Saturday we spent most of our time checking on people who
the sisters had been trying to work, but we had no luck. We had dinner with
another awesome family for the ward then we headed an hour up the road to our
stake center for the Saturday session of stake conference. Stake Conference was
pretty great! President and Sister Cooke both gave the same talks they
gave in the Stake Conference that I went to two weeks ago and even though it was the
same, Sister Cooke's talk hit me. She talked about how if we are struggling, to take the
focus off of ourselves and help that person is having a harder time than you. I have been put in my area to help my companions reach
their potential and to obviously preach the gospel the Patuxent Ward.
Sunday we
had the Sunday session of Stake Conference which was also really good! We were not
able to meet very many members of the ward unfortunately because of how many
people were in attendance. After church we drove to our house, ate and then we
drove up to a members house to take us to Why I Believe. The keynote speakers
was the Cooke family because this is their last Why I Believe. The fireside
was awesome and it makes me really sad that they are leaving here very shortly.
Sorry for the super long email!
Hope you all have an awesome day! Byeeeee. Oh yeah there
is also Amish that live down here.